Pavel Durov 🚨 Another proof that Telegram’s Secret Chats are the most secure way to communicate. The FBI got access to deleted messages in US gov-funded app Signal just by checking the notifications data. On Telegram, Secret Chats never show message content in push notifications, so, unlike Signal and other supposedly secure apps, we don’t have this risk. 🔛 Turning off notification previews won’t make you safe if you use those apps, because you never know whether the people you message have done the same. So Telegram’s Secret Chats design that forces the absence of notifications previews is the only solution. Obviously, this hurts usability, that’s why Telegram has two types of chats: Secret and Cloud. 🤹 In general, apps that are trying to provide both security and usability in ONE type of chat end up with ugly compromises — like WhatsApp leaking 95% of messages via unencrypted backups or Signal exposing messages through push notifications. The only way is to have two types of chats: 100% usable (Cloud) and 100% secure (Secret). 📆 12+ years passed since Telegram started the end-to-end encryption revolution by launching Secret Chats. Since then, dozens of apps followed suit and made bold claims about their encryption. But no app has been able to beat our Cloud Chats in usability and our Secret Chats in security. Their try to mix the two and get neither. Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 9to5Mac FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages - 9to5Mac The FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data stored in the device’s notification database. 29.3K 38.1K 11.2K 8.82K 7.76K 2.14M views Pavel Durov , 22:24 Pavel Durov 🔐 We’ve upgraded Telegram’s anti-censorship protocol. Users in Russia are advised to update their apps to stay connected despite the ban. ⚠️ Some other advice: stock up on several VPNs/proxies in advance, help your friends and family do the same, and avoid using Russian apps while connected to a VPN (they may report your VPN to authorities for blocking). 💪 I’m glad to see most people are already doing this. Thanks to this Digital Resistance, Telegram usage in Russia has remained stable over the past week despite the full ban. 🔥 Keep it up. On our side, we’ll continue improving Telegram’s decentralized anti-censorship tech. Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 21.7K 112K 28.3K 17.8K 7.91K 2.95M views Pavel Durov , 12:44 Pavel Durov ⚠️ WhatsApp’s “End-to-end encryption by default” claim is a giant consumer fraud. 📖 ~95% of private messages on WhatsApp end up in plain-text backups on Apple/Google servers — not E2E-encrypted. Backup encryption is optional, and few people enable it — let alone use strong passwords. 🔑 Even if you encrypt your WhatsApp backups with a strong password, your messages still end up in unencrypted cloud backups — because 90%+ of the people you message haven’t done the same. Add the fact that WhatsApp stores and discloses who you chat with, and the picture is dire. 📤 Apple and Google disclose backed-up WhatsApp messages to third parties thousands of times per year. Meanwhile, Telegram hasn’t disclosed a single byte of users’ messages in its entire 12+ year history 💬 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 17.7K 51.1K 24.9K 12.4K 6.56K 2.16M views Pavel Durov , 15:25 Pavel Durov 🗽 Anyone under 25 can win €100,000 for an essay on digital freedoms . The Youth Liberty Prize 2026 supports young thinkers ready to defend freedom from threats like censorship, surveillance, digital IDs and CBDCs. Stand for freedom and win ✊ Full details: https://www.libertyprize.org/ Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM www.libertyprize.org Youth Liberty Prize 2026 Leading young minds globally tackle the problem of digital interventionism through the lens of the Austrian School of Economics 11.3K 31.5K 9.44K 6.59K 5.94K 1.85M views Pavel Durov , 21:25 Pavel Durov Group admins can assign tags to users — or embrace the chaos and let them assign their own. 🔥 0:09 This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 3.74K 22.3K 6.42K 4.93K 3.02K 1.63M views Pavel Durov , 01:20 Pavel Durov 0:10 This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM ⚡️ You can now create agentic bots in just 2 taps 🤖 Ask the devs of the services you use to support it 👇 https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#managed-bots Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 63.1K 17K 5.61K 4.36K 1.73K 1.54M views Pavel Durov , 20:18 Pavel Durov 🇪🇺 The EU wants to force mandatory ID checks on anyone using social media — and ban people under 18 from accessing it. To that end, the EU Commission spent over a year building an “age verification app”, which its president pompously unveiled yesterday. Today, this app got hacked in just 2 minutes . But don’t rush to laugh at EU bureaucrats. Their age verification app was hackable by design — it trusted the device (that’s instant game over). Unless the EU is run by clowns 🤡 , this is their real plan: Step 1 — Present a “privacy-respecting” but hackable app. Step 2 — Get hacked ( *YOU ARE HERE* ). Step 3 — Remove privacy to “fix” the app. Result — a surveillance tool sold as “privacy-respecting”. The EU bureaucrats needed an excuse to silently start turning their “privacy-respecting” age verification app into a surveillance mechanism over all Europeans using social media. Today’s “surprising hack” just handed this excuse to them. 🦇 Stay vigilant! Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM Cybernews Experts slam EU age verification app after easy 2-minute bypass The EU’s age verification app is under fire after researchers revealed simple methods to bypass its protections in minutes. 16.7K 30.9K 12.8K 7.96K 2.72K 1.73M views Pavel Durov , 02:31 Pavel Durov This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM 🎁 Our new Login Widget is a gift to developers: they can not only quickly authorize users, but also request users’ phone numbers and permission to message them on Telegram. 🆓 Sign-up, login, phone verification , and a follow-up communication channel in one — completely free . Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 2.72K 18.5K 6.32K 3.91K 1.66K 1.5M views Pavel Durov , 00:58 Pavel Durov This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM ✅ The Telegram Login SDK now supports native iOS and Android apps. 📱 🤩 Only Telegram lets developers verify users’ phone numbers for free — something that’s otherwise expensive. 🫰 🍴 Expect more apps adding “Continue with Telegram"! 🚀 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 3.19K 21.4K 5.8K 3.91K 2.93K 1.44M views Pavel Durov , 23:57 Pavel Durov 🇫🇷 Macron’s France is losing legitimacy as it weaponizes criminal investigations to suppress free speech and privacy . The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to assist France in its investigation of Elon Musk, calling the case politically motivated . 🎭 The French prosecutor’s office claims to be independent, but that is untrue: French prosecutors are hired, fired, and promoted by the government. The judicial police — who provide often misleading reports to investigative judges — are also controlled by the government. I’m under a similar investigation in France: over a dozen charges, each carrying up to 10 years in prison. Proud to stand alongside Elon Musk and others targeted by Macron's campaign against digital rights. In Macron’s France, being investigated is the new Légion d’honneur . 🎖 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM CNBC Justice Department refuses to assist French probe into Musk’s X, WSJ reports Musk faces questions as part of a year-long probe in France into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X or its executives. 13.1K 25K 13.8K 5.96K 2.1K 1.71M views Pavel Durov , edited 00:01 Pavel Durov This is how the EU/UK now regulates social media: 🤐 Offer CEOs secret deals to censor dissent. 🚨 If they refuse, open criminal cases against them. 😑 When people push back, say it's "all for the children". "Protecting children" has become the standard legal/PR cover. 🎭 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 7.08K 35.4K 9.14K 8.63K 7.2K 1.62M views Pavel Durov , edited 16:25 Pavel Durov France's "Agency for Secure Documents" was hacked. Names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers of 19 million people — leaked from a single government database. Future leaks will be even more catastrophic if the French government gets what it wants: access to encrypted chats and Digital IDs of social media users. 5.03K 34.1K 13.4K 8.9K 2.66K 1.61M views Pavel Durov , edited 22:55 Pavel Durov The apartment in Russia where I lived 20 years ago received a summons for “Suspect P. V. Durov”. They must be suspecting me of defending Articles 29 and 23 of the Russian Constitution — which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to private correspondence. Proud to be guilty! 😏 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 17.4K 102K 48.1K 19.1K 10.8K 1.46M views Pavel Durov , 17:06 Pavel Durov ⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load. 🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission. 🪙 MTONGA Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM Telegram Pavel Durov 🚀 The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster. ⚡️ Block rate increased 6×. ⏱ Transactions are now instant, subsecond. 🪙 This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA). Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×. ✂️ 8.07K 18.2K 8.93K 6.71K 2.52K 1.2M views Pavel Durov , edited 17:12 Pavel Durov 41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026 . Why? 🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks. Now the same state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users. More data => More leaks => More victims. That’s why Telegram would rather leave the French market than give their corrupt bureaucrats access to private messages. 🐶 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 7.17K 31.1K 22.9K 10.8K 3.66K 942K views Pavel Durov , 19:32